How can I reuse or recycle old snowboards?

I found your site from Google after getting fed up with old snowboarding gear I have that has no snowboarding use left but could be used for other things. Searching your site I found a use for old plastic bindings, that someone said they could use for a project.

How can I reuse 2 old snowboards (one from 2000, the other 1995?) and one set of aluminium bindings? I am not after anything for them but feel they could be put to alternative uses.

I’m presuming they’re not still usable as snowboards by anyone else for whatever reason – otherwise I’m sure Mark would just pass them onto someone else who could use them (either through something like Freecycle or a snowboard-specific forum or whatever) – and Wikipedia informs me they’re usually made from a combination of wood, fibreglass, plastic and metal so recycling them is probably a nightmare – so we’re looking for reuse suggestions.

I think they’d make a cool version of the traditional cheap breeze-block-and-a-plank shelving unit but I realise that might not fit everyone’s favoured design aesthetic.

For christmas last year i made a bench from my brother’s old snowboard. I built your basic bench and then screwed the board to the wood through the binding hole. you could make two, or you can take the second board and turn it into a bench with a back rest.. just an idea but when its finished it looks REALLY good.. and one of a kind.

I’m not sure what to do with the bindings, but the snowboards themselves could be turned into railings for snowboards rails – as in, a rail for boardsliding on a snowboard. It has a nice ironic twist to it, I think.

There are many options, clocks, tables, benches, planters… people tend to like benches (especially if you have two boards) I work for a big snowboard company and we are trying to come up with a solution for a large quantity of boards. Any ideas would be great.

I saw an old wakeboard that was used as a mirror. The original mirror was dropped and shattered, then the pieces were glued onto the middle of the wakeboard in a random way and so that no 2 pieces were touching. It was hung in the boardshop’s bathroom.